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Wife beating is more serious than many would assume — page 4.
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The Rev. Jim Conn has a “part-time” job as Santa Monica’s mayor — page 9.
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Todd Marinovich, custom-built quarterback, is coming to USC — page 28.
Volume CIV, Number 40
University of Southern California
Wednesday, March 9, 1988
Senate news for the herd that hasn’t heard
Senate lacks power and money compared with other institutions
Supervises bookstore annual budget, USAC: more than $700,000 : $10 per
Owns Student Union building and keeps proceeds from its
businesses_____________
budget: $17 million
Not an associated student body
budget: $750,000
By Kevin Ota
Staff Writer
While the campaign to fight voter apathy in this week's Student Senate election continues, it seems that USC's student government needs more help than student votes can provide.
Compared with student governments at other universities, including UC Berkeley and UCLA, the Student Senate has almost no power and little money — privileges it lost when the university temporarily disbanded the government in the 1970s in the midst of a scandal.
Michael Powell, a student senator of the Associated Students of UC Berkeley, said
ASUC is completely independent from the university and has a $17 million budget — more than 20 times that of USC's Student Senate.
"We are one of the few student governments in the nation that actually has power,” Powell said. ''The ASUC at Berkeley has autonomy; it has its own budget."
Powell said the ASUC owns Berkeley's Student Union building and gains revenue from the campus bookstore, a bowling alley, study rooms and a computer store, all of which are housed in the building. That money easily eclipses the funds other university senates have at their disposal, he said.
The ASUC also owns another building that provides offices for its 30 senators and five executive directors — all of which are students.
Powell said that because of its independence, the ASUC has several advantages.
"Because of our autonomy, we don't have to shut up," he said. "We don't necessarily have a say in everything, but we can put pressure on the university . . . and the university will hear our needs."
The administration at Berkeley "wants to be on good terms with students. They don't have all the power," Powell said.
He said UCLA lost a similarly (Continued on page 19)
Senate election scandals of ’60s, ’70s are no reflection on current campaign
By Shannon Rafferty
Staff Writer
Student Senate elections have a history of corruption and regulation violations, but this year's campaign tactics have been tame in comparison with recent years.
Although there have been iso-
lated incidents of candidates distributing fliers in areas designated off-limits and posting fliers over other candidates' bulletins, campaign violations have been few and far between, said Hahn Cao, elections and recruitment chairwoman.
Some candidates privately complained of unfair campaign
strategies in the current election, but none would go on the record to name specific people who are guilty of breaking election rules.
"I've been very strict," said Cao, who is also a member of the committee that disqualifies candidates when regulations are (Continued on page 19)
‘Education and bunk’ pays off for faculty, students
By Kathleen Berry
Staff Writer
The university lavished academic and creative awards as well as much pomp and ceremony upon students, faculty members and staff in Bovard Auditorium Tuesday at the Seventh Annual Academic Honors Convocation.
About 20 faculty members on stage, dressed in caps and gowns of many colors trom their alma maters, hailed students and colleagues for scholastic achievement and university service.
The ceremony honored 12 students, 15 faculty members, one staff member and a former member of the university' Board of Trustees for distinguished achievement in various disciplines. Twenty-five of the 29 a ward-winners were men.
"And now you know who the winners of Super Tuesday are," noted Kenneth Trefftzs, professor emeritus of finance and business, after he received the Distinguished Emerti Award.
James Kincaid, the first professor to hold the Aerol Amold Chair in English, gave the convocation's address, which was irreverently titled "The Golden Age of Higher Education and Other Bunk."
Kincaid spoke of the present scourge of authors such as Alan Bloom and E.D. Hirsch who are "eager to believe our present education system seeks to close minds.''
The word "bunk" symbolizes the compiling of endless facts and lists that students must know in order to be fully educated, he said. They give "a sense that some devious purpose is served after all."
The university represents "a giant shopping mall," he said, "with each shopkeeper's interests in its own wares and oblivious of its neighbors.
"There is a problem with an education system . . . that is so baffling to students and to us," he said. "Is it not possible that we are playing a game of education hide and seek?"
Kincaid's remarks underscored the success of a handful of students and professors who played that game and won.
Undergraduate awards were given to three graduating seniors who maintained 4.0 grade point averages over the past four years.
"There's a tremendous amount of academic competition at USC so I'm ex-(Continued on page 20)
JIMMY LEE / DAILY TROJAN
A procession of faculty members marches toward Bovard Auditorium.

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viewpoinl
Wife beating is more serious than many would assume — page 4.
feature
The Rev. Jim Conn has a “part-time” job as Santa Monica’s mayor — page 9.
sports
Todd Marinovich, custom-built quarterback, is coming to USC — page 28.
Volume CIV, Number 40
University of Southern California
Wednesday, March 9, 1988
Senate news for the herd that hasn’t heard
Senate lacks power and money compared with other institutions
Supervises bookstore annual budget, USAC: more than $700,000 : $10 per
Owns Student Union building and keeps proceeds from its
businesses_____________
budget: $17 million
Not an associated student body
budget: $750,000
By Kevin Ota
Staff Writer
While the campaign to fight voter apathy in this week's Student Senate election continues, it seems that USC's student government needs more help than student votes can provide.
Compared with student governments at other universities, including UC Berkeley and UCLA, the Student Senate has almost no power and little money — privileges it lost when the university temporarily disbanded the government in the 1970s in the midst of a scandal.
Michael Powell, a student senator of the Associated Students of UC Berkeley, said
ASUC is completely independent from the university and has a $17 million budget — more than 20 times that of USC's Student Senate.
"We are one of the few student governments in the nation that actually has power,” Powell said. ''The ASUC at Berkeley has autonomy; it has its own budget."
Powell said the ASUC owns Berkeley's Student Union building and gains revenue from the campus bookstore, a bowling alley, study rooms and a computer store, all of which are housed in the building. That money easily eclipses the funds other university senates have at their disposal, he said.
The ASUC also owns another building that provides offices for its 30 senators and five executive directors — all of which are students.
Powell said that because of its independence, the ASUC has several advantages.
"Because of our autonomy, we don't have to shut up," he said. "We don't necessarily have a say in everything, but we can put pressure on the university . . . and the university will hear our needs."
The administration at Berkeley "wants to be on good terms with students. They don't have all the power," Powell said.
He said UCLA lost a similarly (Continued on page 19)
Senate election scandals of ’60s, ’70s are no reflection on current campaign
By Shannon Rafferty
Staff Writer
Student Senate elections have a history of corruption and regulation violations, but this year's campaign tactics have been tame in comparison with recent years.
Although there have been iso-
lated incidents of candidates distributing fliers in areas designated off-limits and posting fliers over other candidates' bulletins, campaign violations have been few and far between, said Hahn Cao, elections and recruitment chairwoman.
Some candidates privately complained of unfair campaign
strategies in the current election, but none would go on the record to name specific people who are guilty of breaking election rules.
"I've been very strict," said Cao, who is also a member of the committee that disqualifies candidates when regulations are (Continued on page 19)
‘Education and bunk’ pays off for faculty, students
By Kathleen Berry
Staff Writer
The university lavished academic and creative awards as well as much pomp and ceremony upon students, faculty members and staff in Bovard Auditorium Tuesday at the Seventh Annual Academic Honors Convocation.
About 20 faculty members on stage, dressed in caps and gowns of many colors trom their alma maters, hailed students and colleagues for scholastic achievement and university service.
The ceremony honored 12 students, 15 faculty members, one staff member and a former member of the university' Board of Trustees for distinguished achievement in various disciplines. Twenty-five of the 29 a ward-winners were men.
"And now you know who the winners of Super Tuesday are," noted Kenneth Trefftzs, professor emeritus of finance and business, after he received the Distinguished Emerti Award.
James Kincaid, the first professor to hold the Aerol Amold Chair in English, gave the convocation's address, which was irreverently titled "The Golden Age of Higher Education and Other Bunk."
Kincaid spoke of the present scourge of authors such as Alan Bloom and E.D. Hirsch who are "eager to believe our present education system seeks to close minds.''
The word "bunk" symbolizes the compiling of endless facts and lists that students must know in order to be fully educated, he said. They give "a sense that some devious purpose is served after all."
The university represents "a giant shopping mall," he said, "with each shopkeeper's interests in its own wares and oblivious of its neighbors.
"There is a problem with an education system . . . that is so baffling to students and to us," he said. "Is it not possible that we are playing a game of education hide and seek?"
Kincaid's remarks underscored the success of a handful of students and professors who played that game and won.
Undergraduate awards were given to three graduating seniors who maintained 4.0 grade point averages over the past four years.
"There's a tremendous amount of academic competition at USC so I'm ex-(Continued on page 20)
JIMMY LEE / DAILY TROJAN
A procession of faculty members marches toward Bovard Auditorium.